In which I realize that just because I think something's pretty late at night, whilst procrastinating on my master's thesis via the internet, doesn't mean that I'll enjoy the results of spinning it almost a year later, whilst procrastinating on grading my students' lab notebooks.

There's probably an off color joke in there about waking up the morning after, but I'm going to leave it to your imaginations. I don't really need to demonstrate on the internet how much time I spend with teenage boys, and what that's done (probably permanently) to my sense of humor.

art batt

art batt singles

yarn from art batt

For the record, this was a very well-prepared art batt. And my spinning was not terrible-- there are scads of people who could have done a better job, but this is not the spinning equivalent of dropping a tray of food while serving in a crowded restaurant on a Friday night.

No, the batt was lovely, and the resulting yarn is reasonably well-done. I just don't like it. And the reason I don't like it has to do with the features (texture, mainly) that make an art batt an art batt. This is the third batt I've spun, the second art batt, and I think I should probably stop buying them.

If only I'd realized that ten months ago.

So, that's spinning for the week. In knitting, I mostly worked on the blue socks during my commute, but switched to Dad's striped socks this weekend for movie and waiting-in-line knitting. Oh, and I put a couple of rows on a sweater while watching TV last night. I've thus far avoided the temptation to cast on all the things... but I suspect that's a losing battle over time.

I am entirely commiserating on the art batt thing. Maybe I should have reread my Ravelry notes on the Tea Cozy where I said it was an "unpleasant knit" before I agreed to do a couple more on commission.

One of the first yarns I produced that I actually liked was made from an art batt. However, I think what really helped was plying the art batt single with a natural colored single. This make an interesting marled yarn, but not an OVERWHELMING art skein, you know?